Healthcare provider-related perceptions toward deprescribing inappropriate medications among older adult outpatients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine healthcare provider-related perceptions toward deprescribing inappropriate medications among older adults.

Methods

A cross-sectional, correlational study used a convenience sample of outpatient older adults to measure their perception toward deprescribing using a Patient's Perceptions of Deprescribing (PPoD), which include 57 multiple-choice questions related to patients' sociodemographic data, health, medicines, healthcare providers, and experience of care provided by the clinic. Data were collected by a graduate nursing student from one pharmacy in a public hospital, five days per week, via in-person interviews.

Results

Data were analyzed for 200 participants. The level of patient collaboration with their primary care providers (PCPs) is linked

SUBMITTER: Rababa MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11556697 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature